Arbeitspapier

Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a fexible semi-parametric propensity score matching approach, we and that the unexplained gender pay gap for young workers is substantially lower in large metropolitan than in rural areas. This regional gap in the gap of roughly ten percentage points remained surprisingly constant over the entire observation period of thirty years.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: BGPE Discussion Paper ; No. 83

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
Labor Discrimination
Thema
Gender pay gap
urban-rural differences
matching
monopsonistic discrimination

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hirsch, Boris
König, Marion
Möller, Joachim
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)
(wo)
Nürnberg
(wann)
2009

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hirsch, Boris
  • König, Marion
  • Möller, Joachim
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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